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The new code has absolutely no optimizations yet, and it still appears to have some serious bugs. I'm about to start looking into why the latency test is failing with 64 bytes.
Please, would you do me a small favor and keep the benchmark stuff text only for now? These sorts of graphs do make a strong impression on people who don't read the finer details. I definitely would like to see this sort of graph comparison in a few weeks. But please, let's only do this when comparing well tested and optimized code against the very mature and highly optimized Teensy 3.x USB code, and maybe other Arduino compatible boards with stable released code.
On benchmarking, here's another really simple speed test I wrote yesterday. Let it run for about 5 seconds, or until the lines/sec number becomes fairly stable.
On this test too, Teensy 3.x with years of careful optimization handily beats the no-optimization code on Teensy 4.0. But that situation won't last long. I will do quite a lot of optimization on T4 soon. Its USB is 480 Mbit/sec speed and the USB controller works at the transfer level rather than the token level as we have on Teensy 3.x, and of course we have a much faster CPU, so the potential for amazing speed is there. But with USB, even incredibly fast hardware does poorly without careful optimization work in the software.Quote:
uint32_t count, prior_count;
uint32_t prior_msec;
uint32_t count_per_second;
// Uncomment this for boards where SerialUSB needed for native port
//#define Serial SerialUSB
void setup() {
while (!Serial) ;
count = 10000000;
prior_count = count;
count_per_second = 0;
prior_msec = millis();
void loop() {
Serial.print(", lines/sec=");
count = count + 1;
uint32_t msec = millis();
if (msec - prior_msec > 1000) {
prior_msec = prior_msec + 1000;
count_per_second = count - prior_count;
prior_count = count;
If you run this speed test on some of Arduino's boards, it's pretty amazing how much the speed varies. Some are amazingly slow. It's also kind of interesting to compare to Teensy 2.0, where the code has a lot of optimization but the hardware is only 8 bits at 16 MHz without DMA.


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Schools in their town are still in session, so we haven't had as much time with Katie as we have had with the other three children. We did get to enjoy an awards assembly with her on Tuesday, where she received a "Student of the Month" award that celebrated her "great love of books and being an outstanding reader." Also "her smile and infectious laugh."
Here are a couple of pictures of Katie outside her elementary school.
On the walk home - she treads this sweet little path that Polly & Eric keep mowed through the sagebrush. Their house is only about a block from the school. Katie looks glum in this photo on purpose - she was refusing to smile for the camera right then.
Congratulations, Katie! She does a great job at home, too. Katie is a wonderful big sister to Seth, Becca, and Anson. Here she enjoys some sweet moments with her newest sibling.

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Christopher Mintz-Plasse, better known to everybody as McLovin, has signed on to play Charilies best friend Evil Ed in the upcoming remake of "Fright Night". This is overshadowed however with the announcement that Doctor Who himself, David Tennant, will be stepping into the shoes of Roddy McDowall's "Vincent".
Porn star Belladonna will be making her main stream debut in the upcoming "Stripped", an indie feature labeled as post-feminism horror.
Dark Horse Comics and Universal Studios are teaming up to bring two popular comic titles to life. While details are scant, "Dreadful Ed" and "Mary Scary" are set to be brought to life as animated features .
A Cambodian woman who was discovered after she had spent 18 years alone living in the jungle turned up missing once again. Everyone took a tentative breath of release as she was found hiding in a 10 meter deep pit toilet for 11 days.
A new report claims that not only did the Bush Administration advocate torturing their prisoners, they also used the prisoners for secret medical experiments.
68 - Rather than suffer a Senate-imposed death by flogging, Nero implores his secretary Epaphroditus to slit his throat. The freedman complies, giving the condemned emperor a quick death, just as centurions arrive at the villa to haul him away.


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Light is a childish, playful creature: airy, natural andfree. The light of stars spreads in the universe with the same ease andfreedom. It extends to infinity without any effort or obstacles. There is akind of unbelievable silence in light. One observing this unbelievable deepsilence formed by light may be struck by the same silence like the soul of achild playing and listening. This ease, this silence and this entirety that isso natural for a child, is beauty itself. Observing the silence of light onecan experience this beauty.
Theobject created by us is the impersonation of light. Light is materialized as iterupts from the lamp-shell and starts it journey. Toactualize this in an object a technique was developed. With this technique weare able to create forms that strain on objects like a light and slim foil, yetmaintaining a strong and self-maintaining structure. Hencean airy and insubstantial material is created being really suitable foractualizing the above philosophical object. Thedematerialized kind of the foil is the materialized visualization of light. Wedid not form the object that spreads light. We formed light.
However,we would not be able to achieve this purpose without the present technologicallevels of light sources. LED allows us to put the light source at a place whereit is not visible. Therefore the where about of the light is not perceivedcreating an effect as the light was materialized in itself. In addition, it issmall and light enough to hold the LED technology, moreover, it does not heatup so much to melt the foil-like material. The plasterwork is made of asystem of polymer and glue, which decomposes in nature and fits to thebiological cycle.
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
An overwhelming urge to run suddenly awakened her. The clock read 4 a.m. Wednesday when Belinda Osborne abruptly opened her eyes and realized she needed closure.
Not more than 36 hours after completing her first Boston Marathon and witnessing the unspeakable horror that transpired at the finish line Monday, Osborne needed to run.
Forget those mornings when the single mother of two would awaken to run at 4:30 a.m. in hopes of making it to the Boston race. Osborne, of Draper, qualified in the St. George Marathon in October, besting the qualifying time by just 1 minute, 29 seconds.
"I felt like I needed to finish something," she said, "and to give people some hope."
Osborne initially intended Boston to be her adieu to competitive marathons, but Monday's explosions instead inspired her to run two marathons in one week.
She plans to pull on her Boston Marathon jersey and run in Saturday's Salt Lake City Marathon along with other Utahns fortunate to cross the finish line on Boston's Boylston Street before the first of two explosions.
Osborne will join Rachel Moody, Paul Fulton, Chelsea Larson and perhaps more of the 354 Utah runners who competed in Boston. The group will run another 26.2 miles with the goal to finish at exactly 4:09:43, the time the first bomb exploded.
"It's a feeling of refusing to be bullied," said Fulton, who along with Moody agreed a few months ago to be pace-setters for the Salt Lake City Marathon. "It's going to be a sense of, 'I'm out here, and I'm not going away.' "
Moody and Fulton initially were slated to pace the 3-hour, 55-minute group Saturday, but Moody, a Herriman resident who will be competing in her 16th marathon, said plans had to change.
It hit her on the flight home from Boston on Tuesday. There needed to be a 4:10 pace, and they needed to lead. The 3:55 group was canceled and a new one 4:10 was created.
"I needed to have a moment of silence to be able to cross that finish line Saturday with my hand over my heart in solidarity," said an emotional Moody, who finished Monday's marathon around the 3-hour, 40- minute mark, running in pace with Fulton. "We won't back down from challenge. We absolutely do not back down."
Moody entered Monday's race having competed in 14 marathons but never Boston. She didn't know the thrill of running through those tight streets feeling like a rock star. Her name was on her jersey and she couldn't go 50 feet without hearing a complete stranger shout her name.
"I had a perma-smile … my cheeks hurt," she said. "I had Boston, and it was so awesome."
Tragedy and triumph ensued. After collecting water to drink and their medals and blankets, Moody and Fulton felt the ground shake and a cannonlike noise engulfed the area.
"Usually when I run, it's a meditative thing for me," Fulton said. "Boston was different. I just went out there, high-fived as many people as I could and enjoyed and made sure I was there in the moment the whole time."
He was, and he wants those moments, those hours and minutes and seconds before two blasts rocked the most popular marathon race in the world, to rub off on the runners and spectators Saturday in Salt Lake City.
Moody said Saturday's marathon is a peaceful challenge and an opportunity to respond and honor 4:09:43.
"I will do this 26.2 again," she said. "I will do it with love and honor and respect in my heart. I will honor the memory of those at the finish line and show that we're not afraid of that time."
Twitter: @chriskamrani
Salt Lake City Marathon
Saturday, April 20, 2013, at 7 a.m.
Start • Olympic Legacy Bridge at the University of Utah
Finish • Liberty Park
Start times
Bike Tour (25 miles) • 6 a.m.
Wheelchair and hand cycle start • 6:30 a.m.
Marathon start (26.2 miles) • 7 a.m.
Half-marathon start (13.1 miles) • 7 a.m.
Hyundai Hope On Wheels 5K (3.1 miles) • 7:10 a.m.
Kids' marathon (1K) • 10:30 a.m.
Marathon qualifying times
Men • two hours, 30 minutes
Women • three hours
Men's open marathon, first place • $500
Men's open marathon, second place • $250
Men's open marathon, third place • $125
Women's open marathon, first place • $500
Women's open marathon, second place • $250
Women's open marathon, third place • $125
Half-marathon qualifying times
Men • 1 hour, 15 minutes
Women • 1 hour, 30 minutes
Men's open half-marathon, first place • $500
Men's open half-marathon, second place • $250
Men's open half-marathon, third place • $125
Women's open half-marathon, first place • $500
Women's open half-marathon, second place • $250
Women's open half-marathon, third place • $125


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A Short Guide to a Happy Marriage
A Short Guide to a Happy Marriage:
The Essentials for Long-Lasting Togetherness (Hardcover)
While there are many self-help books addressing marriage issues,
none is as pointed and straightforward as O'Neill's A Short Guide
to a Happy Marriage. Like her highly acclaimed short book,
Sheltering Thoughts: About Loss and Grief, this book will speak to
its readers through its directness and simplicity. It challenges
readers to understand and live by the tenets of a committed
relationship. In the spirit of the bestselling book, A Short Guide To
A Happy Life by Anna Quindlen, author Sharon Gilchrest O'Neill
offers readers the same inviting and simple but sensible approach
for embracing marriage, and provides the essentials of a long-
lasting relationship. Boston Globe #1 relationship pick!
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Read a review: Here
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Recently we brought you the FilmNation announcement of Terrence Malick's film, Lawless, starring Ryan Gosling (Drive) and Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Since Christian Bale was recently seen shooting with Malick in Austin, we thought we'd bring you some images of the other stars. The Bale photos show the star decked out in all black and the method actor seems to be in character. The Gosling pics seem to just show the young star milling about, but anything from a Malick set is worth checking out. Hit the jump to see the photos.
The Playlist reported on the set photos of Lawless from Austin, TX's "Fun Fun Fest", which kicked off today. The photos are gathered conveniently in a Tumblr gallery entitled "RyanGoslingatFunFunFest". On closer inspection, Gosling may be donning a similar attire to Bale. The Playlist suggests this may be a younger/older version of the same character played by the two actors, but my money's on the two principals portraying some sort of rebellious (motorcycle?) gang members. Mara doesn't look quite as severe as she does in her The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo get-up, but she also might not be in costume as the project is still in pre-production.
UPDATED: Here's a few more images via celebuzz.


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Tuesday 24 January 2012 4:16:35 pm - 6 replies
Hi everyone
We are using ezoe 5.x (5.3.x i suppose).
And we have a strange behaviour on our wysiwyg.
If i use a preformated style like "Header 1" ezoe insert "header" and "section" tag instead of a stupid "h1" tag...!
Same pb when i want to create a paragraphe it insert an unknown and unstyled "paragraph" tag instead of a stupid simple "pa" tag...!!
Any ideas on how to fix this strange behaviour ?
Tuesday 24 January 2012 4:27:29 pm
Hello again trash can,
I think you should consider calming down first.
Your anger and frustration are blinding you.
First your forum post is much more unclear and harder to understand as a direct result.
I'm not certain how best to continue to respond to the specifics you have shared.
I myself have never heard of a 'pa' tag -ever- in html, but I'm fairly certain that the 'paragraph' tag as you mention sounds like your refering to ezxml (the content storage format used primarily by eZ Publish and eZOE) which would sound normal. Remember that ezpublish stores it's content in ezxml and specifically not html format, though ezoe to my knowledge presents the content in html for editing purposes and then transforms the result back to ezxml for storage.
Are you certain your not confusing ezxml with html? I can't be certain myself with the angry content you have shared so far. But you make reference to tags which do exist in ezxml but not in html, though even 'section' tag does not exist in ezxml to my knowledge ... so I'm confused.
Sorry I don't know why ezoe / ezpublish causing you so much grief.
Please share a little more detail, Pastebin the content ezoe produces, share more specifics clearly without the attitude and I'm certain more of the other forum users will do their best to try to help you reach a solution / understanding.
I hope this helps ...
Modified on Tuesday 24 January 2012 4:30:47 pm by // Heath
Tuesday 24 January 2012 4:58:40 pm
Trash can : eZ Publish stores rich text in its own XML syntax in order to be template-based in HTML generation. That's why you have
 tags stored in the database.
I think you might have outputted the raw content in your template instead of the HTML generated one. Please consider documentation on XML Block datatype and eZXMLText object to help you.
Tuesday 24 January 2012 5:01:53 pm
First sorry my previous post. I didn't want to be aggressive at all !
Even I have to recognize it, I do feel frustrated...
So as you've asked, here is some more information:
I have edited one content of classe "Article"
The class article is made of 2 field:
- A title: made of a line of text
- A content: made of a [Bloc XML]
If I disabled the wysiwig editor here is the code i've put:
un paragraphe mon texte H1 Text H2 Text H3 text paragraph

MBA

So I saved that content.
When I go back to my frontoffice to check this content
With firebug I grab the div taht is expected to receive the wysiwyg content.
Here is what I get as html source in this front-office div :

 <paragraph>un paragraphe</paragraph> <paragraph>mon texte</paragraph>
 H1 Text
 H2 Text
 H3 text <paragraph>paragraph</paragraph> <paragraph xmlns:tmp="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish3/temporary/">

 <paragraph xmlns:tmp="http://ez.no/namespaces/ezpublish3/temporary/"> MBA</paragraph>

 </paragraph>

With what you've explained it seems that some ezxml is directly displayed in the html.
A bit like if the transforming process ezxml->html had been skipped...
Any ideas?
Tuesday 24 January 2012 5:06:27 pm
This is perfectly normal in the admin interface since ezoe is NOT an HTML editor .
If you deactivate the editor, eZ Publish will render a simplified eZXML... But why do you want to do this ? Explaining this might help us to guide you
Regarding front office, I suspect that you don't use the attribute_view_gui function in your template, right ?
Cheers !
PS : We know that eZ Publish learning curve can be sometimes painful and frustrating, but it worths it
Modified on Tuesday 24 January 2012 5:07:49 pm by Jérôme Vieilledent
Tuesday 24 January 2012 5:21:46 pm
You were completely right.
Seems that I directly diplay the content with an awful :
instead of correct:
{attribute_view_gui attribute=$node.data_map.contenu}
My bad!
Sorry again...!
Shame on me !
Tuesday 24 January 2012 5:29:20 pm
OK I'm happy I could help you .
See data_text, data_int and data_float as raw data. You should not rely on those most of the time since they are not interpreted by the datatype. So if the content of an attribute is supposed to be an object, then displaying data_text would never make this object to be constructed.
At least consider using the .content of each attribute if you don't want to use attribute_view_gui. It's generally well described for built-in datatypes in the reference doc .
Cheers !
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Post your services here.
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own." Adam Savage
Located in East TN but will pollinate crops throughout the state and in other states within the lower 48. Fees vary by crop and location. Call, email, or see website for more information.
Tel: (865) 585-5827
Website: www.bens-bees.com
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Reiter Engineering GmbH&Co.KG (hereinafter RE)
Managing Director: Johann Reiter
Leobendorfer Str. 39, 83417 Kirchanschoering
VAT ID No.: DE223213055
§1 Scope of applicability
Any deliveries and services by RE shall exclusively be subject to the following terms and conditions. Any terms of the Purchaser contrary to or conflicting with these terms and conditions shall not be accepted, unless expressly approved by us in writing.
The terms and conditions shall constitute an agreed and integral part of all contracts concluded with RE. They shall apply to any future transactions, even in the absence of any further explicit reference made to them.
§2 Offers
Our offers shall always be subject to confirmation. We shall reserve the right to technical changes, as well as to changes of form, colour and/or weight within reasonable limits.
Any promises of delivery, oral representations or special agreements shall be valid only upon written confirmation by RE.
A contract for delivery shall not yet come into being upon acknowledgment of receipt of the order, but only upon RE either having sent the Customer a confirmation of contract in written or electronic form or having performed the delivery.
§3 Delivery
Deliveries shall on principle be effected on the agreed date of delivery, which shall initially be non-binding and subject to delivery to us by our upstream suppliers, unless we have guaranteed a binding date of delivery. Partial deliveries shall be permissible. In the event of exceedance of the date of delivery, the Purchaser shall be entitled to withdraw from the contract or from the as yet unfulfilled part of the contract, provided that they have granted us a reasonable grace period and RE defaults with regard to delivery.
In case of manufacture to customer's specifications, withdrawal from the contract shall be excluded.
Unforeseen obstacles to delivery, such as in cases of force majeure, interruptions of operations in our own plant or in the plant of the upstream supplier or manufacturer, strike, transport difficulties, etc. shall release RE from the obligation to deliver.
Claims for damages on the part of the Purchaser due to delayed delivery or non-performance shall be excluded in any case.
Delivery shall be subject to the unconditional creditworthiness of the Purchaser. Should any doubts arise in this regard following the conclusion of contract, RE shall be entitled to withdraw from the contract.
§4 Shipping
Shipping shall in all cases be effected for the account and at the risk of the Purchaser. This provision shall likewise apply to any return of goods, unless mandatory statutory regulations require the Seller to bear costs and risk of the return. The risk shall pass to the Purchaser upon dispatch of the goods at the latest.
Any returns, irrespective of the reasons, are as a rule to be delivered free domicile.
In the event of a delay in dispatch without any fault on our part, the goods shall be stored at the expense and risk of the Purchaser. In such case, our notification of readiness for dispatch shall be deemed equivalent to dispatch. Shipping shall be effected at our discretion, however, without any warranty for the most cost-effective shipping method. Any shipping instructions on the part of the Purchaser shall, to the extent possible, be taken into account. RE shall not take out any insurance for transport damages.
§5 Prices and terms of payment
All prices are to be understood in EUROS, plus the applicable statutory value-added tax. Unless expressly agreed otherwise, the invoice amount shall become due without deduction immediately upon delivery. In case of delivery, payment shall be effected in advance or, if expressly agreed, by invoice.
The shipping costs, which shall include the costs for packaging and transport, shall be invoiced separately and may deviate in case of deliveries abroad.
The Purchaser shall not have the right to offset or withhold payment based on any counter-claims that have neither been acknowledged by us in writing nor recognized by declaratory judgment. In the event of default in payment, default interest is to be paid in accordance with the applicable statutory provisions, while we shall reserve the right to assert additional claims for damages.
§6 Cancellation Policy
§6.1 Right of cancellation
You may revoke your contractual declaration within 14 days in text form (e.g. letter, fax, e-mail) without giving any reasons or – if the item is provided to you prior to the expiry of the cancellation period – by returning the item. The cancellation period starts after receipt of this instruction in text form, however not prior to the receipt of the item by the recipient (in case of repeated delivery of similar merchandise, not prior to receipt of the first partial delivery) or, in the case of services except payment services, not prior to the conclusion of contract and also not prior to the fulfilment of our information obligations in accordance with Article 246 Section 2 in conjunction with Section 1 Subsections 1 and 2 EGBGB [Introductory Statute to the German Civil Code], as well as our obligations in accordance with Section 312 g Subsection 1 Sentence 1 BGB [German Civil Code] in conjunction with Article 246 Section 3 EGBGB. For the observance of the cancellation period, the timely dispatch of the notice of cancellation or the item shall suffice. The cancellation shall be addressed to:
Reiter Engineering GmbH & Co.KG
Leobendorfer Str. 39
83417 Kirchanschoering
Telefax: +49 8685 779218
E-mail: email@example.com
§6.2 Consequences of cancellation
In the case of an effective cancellation, the merchandise and/or services received by both parties shall be returned and any usufructs derived therefrom (e.g. interest) shall be surrendered. Insofar as you are unable to return the merchandise and/or services and the usufructs (e.g. benefits from use) to us either in whole or in part, or are only able to return or surrender them to us in deteriorated condition, you must compensate us for lost value. This may result in your nonetheless being required to fulfil the contractual payment obligations for the time period until cancellation. With regard to the deterioration of an item and any usufructs derived therefrom, you shall be required to compensate for lost value only insofar as the usufructs or the deterioration is/are the result of handling the item over and beyond the inspection of its qualities and functionality. "Inspection of the qualities and functionality" is to be understood as the testing and trying out of the merchandise in question, such as is possible and customary in a shop, for example. Items that are capable of being shipped as parcels shall be returned at our risk. You shall bear the regular costs of the return if the delivered merchandise matches the one ordered, and if the price of the item to be returned does not exceed an amount of Euro 40 or if, in case of a higher price of the item, you have not yet performed the consideration or a contractually agreed partial payment at the time of cancellation. Otherwise, the return shall be free of charge for you. Items not capable of being shipped as parcels shall be collected at your premises. Obligations to reimburse payments must be met within 30 days. The period shall commence for you upon dispatch of your notice of cancellation or of the item, and for us, upon its receipt.
Special note
In case of distance contracts regarding the performance of a service, your right of cancellation shall expire prematurely if the contract has been fully fulfilled by both parties at your express request prior to your having exercised your right of cancellation.
§7 Reservation of title
We shall reserve the title to the delivered goods until full payment of the purchase price, including the invoiced value-added tax, has been effected, and until all claims against the Purchaser existing at the time of delivery or arising at a later point in time have been satisfied. In the case that the Purchaser sells the reserved goods, it shall be deemed agreed upon conclusion of the purchase agreement that the purchase price claim resulting from such sale, including the invoiced value-added tax, shall be assigned to us in the amount of the outstanding claim due to us.
The Purchaser shall be entitled to re-sell the reserved goods only subject to the condition that the purchase price claim or works compensation claim shall pass to us in accordance with the preceding provisions. The Purchaser shall not be entitled to any other disposal, in particular with regard to additional assignments of claims.
The Purchaser must immediately notify RE of any access to the goods by third parties, in particular in the event of attachment of our reserved goods.
§8 Warranty
Illustrations and descriptions shall serve the purpose of general clarification only; technical data may be subject to change, as we constantly strive to improve our products. Any details contained in the descriptions with regard to performance, speed, etc. shall be non-binding data which are to be regarded as approximate values.
We expressly point out that motor sport parts are non-durable heavy-duty products which are not licensed for public road traffic. RE cannot accept any warranty or liability for these special motor sport parts. We likewise exclude any warranty for the participation in motor sport and other events at which conditions other than in general road traffic prevail.
If the Purchaser is a contractor, we shall, at our discretion, initially provide warranty for defects of the object of purchase in the form of rectification of defects or substitute delivery.
If the Purchaser is a consumer, they shall initially be provided a choice as to whether the supplementary performance is to be effected by rectification of defects or by substitute delivery. We shall, however, have the right to refuse the type of supplementary performance selected if such performance can only be carried out in connection with disproportionate costs and the other type of supplementary performance would not cause any significant disadvantages to the Purchaser.
If the supplementary performance fails, the Purchaser may as a rule and at their discretion claim a reduction of the purchase price or withdraw from the contract. However, in the case of but a minor lack of conformity with the contract, in particular in the case of but minor defects, the Purchaser shall not be entitled to any right of cancellation.
Contractors shall be obliged to notify us of obvious defects within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of the object of purchase; otherwise, the enforcement of the warranty shall be excluded.
Consumers shall be obliged to notify us of obvious defects in writing within a period of two months from the time at which the condition in breach of the contract of the object of purchase was detected. With regard to the observation of the period, receipt of such notification by us shall be authoritative. If the consumer fails to notify us accordingly, the warranty rights shall lapse two months after the detection of the defect. This shall not apply in case of fraudulent intent on the part of the Purchaser. The burden of proof of establishing the time of detection of the defect shall be on the Consumer starting from the 6th month after delivery.
For Consumers, the statute of limitation shall be two years from the delivery of the object of purchase.
In the case of used goods, the statute of limitation shall be one year from the delivery of the object of purchase. This shall not apply if the Customer has failed to notify us of the defect in good time.
Any damages arising as a result of inappropriate handling, mounting or overload of the object of purchase or as a result of non-observance of the provisions regarding the handling, maintenance and care of the object of purchase shall be excluded from the warranty.
§9 Use in public road traffic
With regard to the licensing for operation in public road traffic, solely the ABE (Allgemeine Betriebserlaubnis = General Type Approval) or the TÜV (similar to MOT) certificate associated with the relevant product and any conditions contained therein shall be authoritative. The goods manufactured and offered for motorsports are, unless expressly specified otherwise, not licensed for use in public road traffic.
The Purchaser shall assume the sole liability for the observance of the statutory licence requirements when using the products offered by RE in public road transport.
§10 Liability
RE shall not assume any liability for slightly negligent violations of duty, unless the latter concern essential contractual obligations or guarantees or give rise to damage resulting from injury to life, body or health, or to claims in accordance with the Produkthaftungsgesetz [German Product Liability Act].
To the extent that liability on the part of RE is excluded or limited, this shall also apply to the liability of legal representatives, employees and vicarious agents of the Supplier.
§11 Reservations
All offers shall be subject to errors and changes. As we do not offer any mass-produced goods, supply bottlenecks on the part of our upstream suppliers are possible, in particular before the start of the motor sport season. In such case, delays in delivery cannot be prevented. In the event of non-availability, we shall not be obliged to deliver. We shall inform our Customers immediately upon establishment of non-availability and shall reimburse the Customer for the executed consideration without delay. Many of the products offered by RE are intended for specialists. In many cases, the products do not include any installation manuals. In order to preclude improper and incorrect use, the products must only be mounted by experts and/or in specialist workshops.
§12 Written form clause
Any changes and amendments to contracts of sale shall be legally effective only if agreed in writing.
§13 Place of performance and jurisdiction
Place of performance for the mutual contractual obligations, as well as the sole place of jurisdiction for any disputes arising under this contractual relationship, shall be Traunstein, Germany.
§14 Applicable law
Any contracts shall exclusively be subject to German law, to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, even if the company headquarters of the Purchaser are located abroad.
§15 Severability clause
Should individual provisions of these GTC be legally invalid, the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected thereby. In place of the invalid provision, a provision of identical content which is legally effective shall apply.


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"Participate in bullish market trends and avoid the major losing market trends," says Nick Atkeson. "If you can execute on this simple idea, you should be a very successful investor."
Well, yeah. That's the whole objective of investing. It's the "how" that matters, and Atkeson doesn't let that slide. The founding partner of San Francisco-based Delta Investment Management wrote the book on it (literally) with Delta co-founder Andrew Houghton, titled "Win by Not Losing: A Disciplined Approach to Building and Protecting Your Wealth in the Stock Market By Managing Your Risk."
So how is it done?
Tactical investing, something Delta knows quite a bit about, as it's the firm's specialty.
"There are variations of the definition of tactical investing," Atkeson explains. "For our purposes, it's an active management portfolio strategy that rebalances a percentage of assets held in different categories in order to take advantage of market pricing discrepancies so we can avoid losses."
Atkeson references Warren Buffett's first rule of investing, "don't lose money," before adding Buffett's second rule of investing, "don't forget rule No. 1."
It's the firm's overarching message, and in the hypervolatile market environment since 2008, it's one that's resonating with clients and readers alike.
"If we compare tactical investing to walking across a city street, our objective is to reach the other side safely," he adds. "The tactic we employ to accomplish this objective is to cross when there are no cars. We start the process by focusing on the possible downside of being struck and injured or killed rather than on the upside of getting to the other side of the street."
According to Atkeson, advisors and clients should look to tactical investing if they believe:
- There is a reasonable probability the stock market will experience a period of severe depreciation during the client's investment horizon.
- There is a reasonable probability the stock market will not experience sufficient appreciation during the client's investment horizon to meet your investment objectives.
- It makes sense to have a well-defined plan in place for addressing items one and two before investing in equities.
"Our objective is to increase wealth by owning stocks," he says. "However, we have no interest in owning stocks if there is a reasonable chance that we will lose a significant portion of that wealth."
Translation: For those with low risk tolerances and an eye for preservation, tactical investing might be just the right thing for them.
"Before entering the market, we 'look both ways' to ensure that risk levels are attractive," Atkeson concludes. "If risk is unacceptably high, we stay out of the market. When risk is low, we proceed to invest. Tactical investing isn't new, though the way we talk about it is."


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Maine couple to go on trial for allegedly hosting underage drinking party
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � A husband and wife from Falmouth are going on trial on charges they hosted a party where high school students were drinking.
Attorneys for Barry and Paula Spencer say they'll argue the couple took extensive measures to prevent anything illegal, but that the party got out of hand by uninvited guests.
Lawyers told the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/UMbpSv) that the party last June 16 was supposed to be alcohol-free in celebration of state championships in two sports, but that uninvited teenagers sneaked onto the property, hid alcohol in bags or purses, and spiked drinks the Spencers thought were non-alcoholic.
When police broke up the party, they say they found nearly 100 teenagers in the backyard, some of whom were drinking and smoking marijuana.
The Spencers' trial begins Monday in Portland.
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What started as an arena for fashion designers to showcase their latest clothing lines, has evolved into a space where beauty pros give us a preview into new trends in hair, makeup and most recently, nails. Here are a few of our faves.
1. NYFW Spring 2014 Beauty Trends: Statement Eyes
Statement Eyes
From dewy lids to sparkly peepers, look-at-me eyes were a big hit. If you're trying these at home, do like the pros and maintain balance by keeping lips and cheeks minimal.
Anna Sui, Makeup by CoverGirl (left); Lela Rose, Makeup by Stila; Jason Wu, Makeup by LancĂ´me
2. NYFW Spring 2014 Beauty Trends: Nude Nails
Nude Nails
Keeping clothes and makeup as the focal point of these shows, the lead manicurists chose neutral shades that still made a statement. For a bold nail look, choose a shade that is drastically different than your own complexion. They'll stand out in a chic, understated kind of way. Or choose one that matches your skin tone. That way when your nail chips, it's less noticeable.
BCBG, Nails by OPI (left); Milly, Nails by Butter London
3. NYFW Spring 2014 Beauty Trends: Glitter Nails
Glitterati Nails
Glitter has come a long way, evolving from girly to womanly. Season after season, the pros backstage find new and creative ways to make sparkly nails as fashion-forward as the designs themselves. From delicately painted tips to full-blown statement manis, the range for how out-there they are changes from show to show.
Nicole Miller, Nails by Butter London (clockwise, from top left); Honor, Nails by Deborah Lippmann; ICBY by Prabal Gurung, Nails by Butter London; Jenny Packham, Nails by Essie
4. NYFW Spring 2014 Beauty Trends: Matte Lip
Matte Lip
This is one look that is here to stay. Somehow, a zero-shine lip instantly upgrades an entire outfit. It's elegant, yet totally cool. The trick is to make sure your lips are smooth (use a lip scrub to treat a chapped pout) and to use a clear liner so that the color won't migrate.
Helmut Lang, Makeup by Nars (clockwise, from top left); Creatures of the Wind, Makeup by Nars; Naeem Khan, Makeup by Nars; Desigual, Makeup by MAC
5. NYFW Spring 2014 Beauty Trends: Low Pony
The Low Pony
A style that was once only reserved for gym class is now a beauty staple. It can be as simple as tying back sleek locks or as extreme as bedazzling your center part. The best part is it works with whatever your hair texture is at the moment—just pop in a fun accessory.
Rodarte, Hair by John Frieda (left); Vera Wang, Hair by Jimmy Paul with Bumble & Bumble; Pamella Roland, Hair by Ted Gibson


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Listen to the drone of the engines of small recreational and commercial planes overhead, with seemingly ever increasing flights weekdays and weekends (Google Quiet Skies Longmont for Facebook link to learn how to help). Listen to the increasingly loud rumble of cars and motorcycles on the roadways. And look at the changing landscape of east Boulder County as well as Weld County to note the devastating effects of fracking (check FrackFree Boulder, FrackFree Colorado, Earth Guardians, and Colorado 350.org).
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Go West, Democrats, in the path of Harry Reid
Can a teetotaling Mormon from a busted mining town in Nevada lead Democrats to the Promised Land of national power? This much is certain: Democrats rallied behind Harry Reid in the hope that he can take them through purgatory —or is it hell? — as minority leader of the 44-member Democratic caucus in the U.S. Senate.
Many doubted at first that a man with his mild demeanor had the right stuff to represent underdog Democrats at their nadir. I think Reid has what it takes.
First, he is an insider, known as one of the best players in the inside baseball game of the Senate, where deals are made in the cloakroom and not on the floor. This means Reid will help shape the issues that shape the future of Democrats.
Second, Reid's highest personal ambition is winning back the Senate for the Democrats and then becoming majority leader. This means he will cultivate and advance new leaders for the party.
Finally — and as important as the others but little noticed in the national puzzlement over how Reid got where he is — he understands the West. Nov.2 indicates that the key to the Democratic Party's future nationally is in the West. The signs are hopeful. Western Democrats did surprisingly well, even though the states went for Bush.
How did Reid end up in charge of a party most see as coastal and liberal? His hard-luck biography says a lot. His father, a prospector and miner in Searchlight, Nev., committed suicide when Reid was a young man. To get a better education, Reid hitchhiked 40 miles each week to go to high school in Henderson, near Las Vegas.
After college, he worked his way through law school as a Capitol Hill cop in Washington, D.C. Back in Nevada, he became head of the state gaming commission and took on the mob in the casino industry. Reid is not a big man, but he was a boxer in high school, a scrapper who puts up a good fight.
Reid grew up in a backwater of the old West but came of age politically in a new West. The region was transformed after World War II by military spending, the interstate highway system, the rise of tourism and the growth of its metropolitan cities. Those forces came together to make this the fastest-growing region in the country.
Las Vegas, where Reid focused his political career, has been caught up in this maelstrom of change. But Reid has also had to represent the rest of Nevada as well, the mining towns, ranches and farms and Indian reservations. He has learned to make important compromises on mining, water, grazing, wilderness, and with Native American tribes. What is most interesting about his compromises is that they are not haphazard. They flow out of his vision of the future.
Reid in his speeches and in personal interactions tells one story over and over. In it, he is taking his wife to see a spring hidden among the Joshua trees in the desert west of Searchlight, where he went as a boy to escape his life. They find the spring, but it has been trashed. Reid is heartbroken: It is one beautiful thing from his past that he wanted to share with his wife in the present. This is one of the few personal stories you will hear from this reticent man. The other involves the suicide of his father, which he only recently began to talk about.
What do the stories signify? They tell him and his listeners that the old ways have got to change. Those stories drive him to find a way out of the dead-end dilemma of the old West, which sees compromise as unmanly.
What might Reid's leadership of the Senate minority mean for the West? He will do everything possible to stop the proposed nuclear dump at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. And if the Senate minority leader can do one thing, it is to clog up the system and delay action. Unlike the House of Representatives, the majority in the Senate cannot ride roughshod over the minority.
More important for the nation, Reid will also be able to shape the legislative agenda behind the scenes. If he can shape the Democratic agenda, he might succeed in moving the party toward the center and toward the West. Reid could be the instrument by which the West replaces the South as a key part of a Democratic coalition, which once again makes that party a contender.


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Right now, there are more than 79 million photos on Instagram that fall under #selfie. This is not counting #selfies (7 million photos), #selfienation (1 million photos), #selfiesfordays (400,000 photos) or the countless number of photos with no hashtag at all. You might be thinking: "Finally, we've reached peak #selfie!" But according to a new study, only 3-5 percent of photos on Instagram fall into the category.
"I'm still surprised the number is so low," says Lev Manovich, a computer science professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY whose name you might recognize from his Phototrails project. Manovich, along data visualization whiz Moritz Stefaner and their team of researcher, historians and designers, spent the past six months gathering Instagram data from five major cities across the world for Selfiecity, a new research project that tries to make sense of the media in social media. How else would we find out that, on average, men only snap 20 percent of the selfies taken in Moscow?
In its short lifespan, the selfie has gone from pop culture phenomenon to academic lab rat. For obvious reasons, these photos are a psychological research goldmine, but there's been little done in the way of objectively looking at the photos' content to see how it might reflect the actual world we live in. Selfiecity looks at the trend through a window, not a microscope. Instead of zeroing in on a single narrow element, the Selfiecity project is broken down into a few broad areas: main findings, contextual essays and interactive data visualizations. "We wanted to look at this phenomena from different perspectives," Manovich explains.
Selfiecity analyzes Instagram data for visual cues like head position, emotional expression, gender and age, in order to get a clearer picture of how (and how often) people actually take selfies in different cultures. "The idea was to confront the generalizations about selfies, which are not based on data, with actual data," says Manovich. "We wanted to look at what the actual patterns are."
The team's findings have been compiled into a website where visitors can play with interactive visualizations to investigate what's going on in any given city's selfiescape. You can narrow the data set of 3,200 selfies down to photos in Bangkok where males with glasses are smiling with their mouths shut. Or women in Berlin who tilt their heads to the right while frowning. "Showing the high level patterns in the data — the big picture — as well as the individual images has been an important theme in our project," says Stefaner. "How can we find summarizations of big data collections, which still respect the individuals, and don't strip away all the interesting details?"
The data gathering was a multi-system process. Manovich's team began by randomly selecting 20,000-30,000 photos from each city–New York City, Berlin, Bangkok, Moscow and Sao Paolo–between Dec. 4 and Dec. 12, 2013. They submitted the photos to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and asked them to answer a simple question: "Does this photo show a single selfie."
The Mechanical Turk workers (with help from Manovich's team) narrowed that set down to a pool of the 640 best selfies from each city and were asked to estimate age and gender of the people photographed. These photos were then processed through software that analyzed the face position and the degree of emotional expressions.
Though statistical analysis, the Selfiecity team discovered a few interesting things:
- On average, women tend to take more selfies than men, particularly in Moscow where 80 percent of the selfies are from women. More interesting yet, is the fact that in older populations that trend reverses. After approximately age 40, men are more likely to take and post selfies on Instagram than women.
- Women are more likely to tilt their heads in photos, with the average amount of head tilt in women being 150 percent higher than in men. And in Sao Paulo, on average women tilt their heads to 16.9 degrees whereas in NYC, women only tilt their head to 11 degrees.
- According to Selfiecity's mood analysis, people in Bangkok and Sao Paulo appear to be happier than people in Moscow. Or at least they smile more in their selfies.
You can make all sorts of assumptions and cultural stereotypes based on these findings, but the most difficult part about social data is actually putting it into context. There are multiple paths one could take to glean meaning from Selfcities' data. For instance, what insights can we gather about society and different cultures through selfies? Or what can we learn about popular photography through analyzing mobile photo data? "In our view, projects such as Selfiecity allow us to ask all these questions," says Manovich.


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The government says it is near agreement with BP PLC and Shell Oil Co. to recoup some of nearly $10 billion in lost royalty revenue from improperly prepared oil and gas leases.
WASHINGTON The government says it is near agreement with BP PLC and Shell Oil Co. to recoup some of nearly $10 billion in lost royalty revenue from improperly prepared oil and gas leases.
Senior Interior Department officials told a House committee Thursday the companies are among 10 they're in negotiations with because the leases didn't include clauses requiring royalty payments for oil selling above $36 a barrel.
"I believe we're very close with Shell and BP," R.M. "Johnnie" Burton, who took over as head of Interior's Minerals Management Service in 2002, said during a hearing before the House Government Reform Committee. "They are thinking about it."
Deputy Interior Secretary Lynn Scarlett said the department developed "proposed terms" and spoke with 20 of about 55 energy companies that have interests in the leases.
Bob Malone, president of BP America Inc., a subsidiary of the London-based company, had told a Senate panel Tuesday that "we're very close to a settlement." Shell Oil also has said it is willing to make changes in the leases.
Republicans and Democrats shared equally in the outrage over the loss of billions of dollars in lost royalty payments because of what Interior officials have termed a "mistake" in the lease agreements.
The House committee's chairman, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., said he wasn't satisfied by the department's explanations.
"It just looks to me like there needs to be adult supervision across-the-board. Am I missing something?" Davis said. The Interior Department might be in a better position, he said, "if we had disclosed these problems ... instead of hiding them for five years."
The leases were negotiated during President Clinton's second term when oil prices were ranging between $10 and $20 a barrel. The idea then was to encourage companies to drill in deep waters by waiving the normal 12 percent royalty as long as prices were low.
Since then, oil and gas prices have soared, ranging recently between $65 and $75 a barrel, but oil companies aren't pay royalties on some of their deep-water production because trigger clauses were omitted from the 1998 and 1999 lease agreements.
"This is one of the worst cases I think I've ever heard of. I'm just stunned," said Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn. "If we just let this go by, excusing it as classic bureaucratic bungling, then we've accepted something we shouldn't accept."
The Government Accountability Office, which is investigating Burton's agency, estimated the error will cost the government nearly $10 billion in lost royalty revenues, not including new oil discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico being developed under a lease from those years.
"We are not sure what happened. We did look at it," said Burton, who chalked up the error to a breakdown in communications at her agency. "What I wanted to know is if that miscommunication was intentional or not."
Burton said she didn't learn of the error until this year. "I don't think the ranks realized it was an issue they needed to tell me about," she said.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., took a dimmer view. He attributed the error to "a culture of irresponsibility, unaccountability that pervades the entire department."
After the hearing, Issa said in an interview that while it doesn't appear any law was broken, "it is clearly a violation of the intent of Congress."
He said the government could get as much as $2.5 billion each from some of the major companies under the 1998-99 leases, including BP PLC, Shell Oil Co., Chevron and Kerr McGee Corp. Kerr-McGee has challenged the price thresholds in a lawsuit against the agency.
Some Democrats called for a criminal investigation. "Obviously, there's an element of fraud or malfeasance here," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio.
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said he was pessimistic about any deal with oil companies. "We will have a solution to the Middle East before you have an agreement from Shell and BP for a $36-a-barrel threshold," he said.
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One of Africa's most attractive primates, the L'Hoest's monkey possesses a brilliant white ruff that frames its delicate black face. Its second most distinctive feature is the deep-set, orange eyes, surrounded by bare skin that is pale violet in adult males. The body and long legs are black with grizzled grey, except for a chestnut coloured 'saddle'. The long tail is thick at the base and tapers to a black brush. Fully grown males can be twice the weight of females and have a conspicuous bright blue scrotum (2).
L'Hoest's monkeys live in groups consisting of a single male and 10 to 17 females and young, which form close bonds reinforced by mutual grooming. L'Hoest's monkeys have a more terrestrial lifestyle than many other monkeys, always travelling on the ground, and, unusually for primates, running to flee from predators such as crowned hawk-eagles (2) (4), a strategy that requires great collective coordination in order to keep together as a group. To feed and to sleep, the L'Hoest's monkeys will scale forest heights where they feed on the fruits of yellow wood, koso, parasol trees, wild custard apple, and the young leaves and shoots of various trees, shrubs and herbs. They also consume invertebrates (5), occasionally eat resins, bracken shoots, mushrooms and lichen (2), and have been seen carefully cleaning dirty dormant seeds that they have extracted from the soil (6).
When sleeping, L'Hoest's monkeys frequent favourite tree spots, where they sleep as a group, out of reach of many predators. Newborn L'Hoest's monkeys are brown and acquire adult colours over the first two to three months. The young are frequently observed entwining their tail with their mother's (2).
Occurs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, western Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (2).
L'Hoest's monkey inhabits forest up to altitudes of 2,500 metres (2).
L'Hoest's monkey is a relatively little-known primate and so populations could be more threatened than is currently thought (6). Habitat loss, due to agriculture, mining and wood extraction (1), combined with hunting for bushmeat, is probably reducing population numbers in many areas (2). Even populations in protected areas are not safe from these threats; large-scale logging is known to have threatened this species in Kibale Forest, Uganda (2), and within Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, poaching, logging and the extraction of gold and charcoal occurs (7).
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) lists L'Hoest's monkey on Appendix II, meaning that any international trade in this species should be carefully monitored (3), but this does little to control hunting for bushmeat. While this species does occur in some protected areas, such as Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (7), these populations still face threats, as mentioned above. While its large distribution and largely inaccessible forest habitat protects the species' short-term survival, the long-term prospects for the handsome L'Hoest's monkey are not so secure (2).
For further information on L'Hoest's monkey see:
Kingdon, J. (1997) The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. Academic Press Ltd, London.
To find out more about the bushmeat trade, its problems and solutions, see:
Bushmeat Crisis Task Force:
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Inadequate meat content, use of meat and fat of unidentifiable origin, low quality grains and carcinogenic chemical preservative.
The first ingredient in this food is a low quality grain. Even if good quality grain were used, we would not choose any food that does not contain meat as the primary ingredient. Corn is a difficult to digest grain, which limits its nutritional value for dogs. We consider this to be a low quality ingredient. It is also commonly associated with allergy and skin problems. Wheat is a grain very commonly associated with allergy problems that we prefer not to see used, and in this form is filler. We prefer not to see the use of these grains in dog food. Soybean meal, the ground remains of soybeans after extraction of oil, provides additional low quality protein to the food. We prefer not to see the use of any form of soy in dog food as this is an ingredient of low quality and commonly causing allergy problems.
The sole meat product in the food is "meat" meal, second on the ingredient list. This is an extremely low quality product of unidentifiable origin and something we would go to great lengths to avoid in any dog food. It is defined as "the rendered product from mammal tissues, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices".
Poultry fat is a further low quality ingredient rarely found in anything but very low quality foods. Poultry fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative". In this instance, the prservative used is a chemical BHA that is widely believed to be carcinogenic.
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The world is fat. And it's getting fatter. Toddlers are obese. Preschoolers are dying of heart attacks and almost one-in-ten Americans are diabetic.
The food industry would like you to believe that it's all your fault because you're a weak-kneed glutton who won't take responsibility for your own health. But as the new documentary Fed Up proves a few times over, the blame for all the blubber spreads wider than a pair of Mr. Big and Tall pants.
The chief villain in this CSI-style dissection of America's gelatinous corpse is the processed-food industry and its love affair with sugar, a substance hardwired into the human brain as necessary for survival.
We like food that tastes sweet, and as a result, processed foods tend to use ample amounts of sugar to make them more appealing. The only problem is, the human body isn't designed to process more than 25 millilitres a day — and many processed foods contain more than the recommended daily allowance in a single serving.
We are ignorant of these facts because food companies wants us to remain ignorant: they refuse to print the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) percentage for sugars on processed foods.
This is probably the biggest revelation in Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig's documentary about a handful of teens struggling to lose weight in a junk-food wasteland. Narrated by Katie Couric and produced by bookseller Heather Reisman and environmentalist Laurie David (An Inconvenient Truth), Fed Up introduces us to average kids dealing with extraordinary weight problems.
All obese and plagued with chronic health problems, the kids form the emotional backbone of the story as they offer teary truths to the camera, explaining how depressed and defeated they feel by their own size.
In most movies, a sad-sack start generally promises a happy ending where the hero overcomes the obstacle and we see feel-good montages of people exercising, standing on scales and smiling with each bite of an apple. It's called inspirational cinema and to be honest, it's what you might expect from a movie featuring the ever-chipper Couric as narrator.
Yet, Fed Up is far from peppy.
Soechtig uses the kids to illustrate how political policy translates into everyday reality. And in the case of missing RDAs for sugar content, that translates into kids making what they think are healthy lunches but are laced with obscene amounts of sugar.
The kids are doomed to fail because they don't have all the facts, and if there's one thing Fed Up does exceptionally well, it's make a complete argument for proper food labelling.
The movie stops short of assigning any blame, though it does describe former U.S. senator George McGovern's efforts to make America healthy were crushed by the food and sugar lobby. It also chronicles Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative, a program to get more exercise and healthier food into schools that fell victim to the same corporate forces.
Obama refused to be interviewed for the documentary, as did representatives from all the major fast-food companies. Paid spokespeople do appear via archival U.S. Senate hearing footage, and the images are hauntingly familiar: they're using the same arguments big tobacco used to fight health warnings 40 years ago.
It's all more than a little creepy because there's a sense of villainy that is never truly unmasked. The movie bends over backward to avoid pointing a single finger of blame, and in the process, turns an important, hard-hitting news story into something softer, fuzzier and just a little sweeter than it needed to be — just like the packaged foods it holds responsible.
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Directed by: Stephanie Soechtig
Narrated by: Katie Couric
Running time: 92 minutes
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In Brief
China's industrial growth has challenged the economic might of the United States, but the country's advances have not occurred evenly. They have come at the expense of rural development, particularly in regions characterized by unfavorable natural conditions and fragile ecosystems. Although China has attained a high degree of grain sufficiency (about 95 percent) and remains a net food exporter, there are signs of enduring serious problems. Poverty combined with food insecurity and malnutrition continues to affect around 150 million Chinese people, according to recent estimates based on the World Bank poverty line of U.S.$1.25. This has exacerbated the widening gap between the wealthy coastal areas, supported by industrial development, and the impoverished peasants of the northwest and southwest who rely on subsistence production. In addition, agricultural income is generally declining and represents a lower percentage of rural household income; many farmers are losing interest in farming, with women and older people becoming the main agricultural cultivators.
Participatory research conducted in southwest China has resulted in concrete strategies to deal with these challenges. Farmers, led by women, have organized effective local organizations for technology development, seed management, and market linkages, with innovative support from the staff of public research and extension agencies. Collaborative field experiments to improve crop varieties—an approach known as participatory plant breeding—local biodiversity fairs, organic farming practices, new market channels, and new forms of research and policy support are contributing to improved farmer livelihoods and to a more dynamic and equitable process of rural development. Modernizing rural development using traditional and local knowledge stands in stark contrast to the shift to industrialized agriculture in China's coastal regions. Both approaches will be needed if China is to address the challenges of food security, well-being, sustainable natural resource management, and biodiversity conservation.
Key Concepts
China's agricultural development in recent decades has contributed to the country's increase in food security and reduction in poverty. However, the country continues to face persistent rural poverty in fragile agroecological regions, increasing socioeconomic inequality, feminization and aging of the agricultural workforce, environmental degradation, and erosion of biodiversity.
Smallholder farmers are losing agricultural biodiversity and related traditional knowledge and local practices. This genetic erosion is threatening the livelihood and security of the poor and the country's long-term agricultural sustainability and food security.
Privatization of seed production has led to a focus on hybrids and other modern varieties and an almost total neglect of other types of crops, including traditional and underutilized varieties. Most hybrid varieties cannot adapt to the conditions in remote mountainous areas, including to increasingly variable weather conditions and longer-term climate change dynamics.
Farmers, led by women, have organized new local organizations for technology development, seed management, and market linkages. They use an approach known as participatory plant breeding, which unites professional breeders and farmer breeders to improve crops and maintain biodiversity, blending the best of scientific and traditional knowledge and expertise.
Green and certified organic agriculture have developed rapidly in China, with financial and technical support of government agencies. Domestic and foreign markets for organic produce are growing. Larger-scale conversion to green and organic agriculture requires considerable time and additional organizational, technical, and marketing support.
China's economic growth in recent years has been extraordinary but uneven. Vulnerable groups, such as smallholder farmers and their communities, are most affected by this unbalanced development, which is expressed in terms of widening income gaps between urban and rural regions, unequal government support to industry and agriculture, a focus on the East Coast and neglect of remote western rural areas, and the prioritization of economic development over protection of the environment. This is leading to enormous challenges, such as enduring extreme rural poverty and increasing socioeconomic inequality, feminization and aging of the agricultural workforce, severe environmental degradation, and serious erosion of biodiversity.1 Ensuring China's food security has recently been added to these concerns. Food insecurity persists in a number of provinces, mostly in western and central China: 130 million people are believed to be food insecure or undernourished. Most of these people live in the mountainous regions of the northwest and southwest, which are characterized by fragile ecological conditions and underdeveloped infrastructure and services. According to a recent study, about 150 million people continue to live under the poverty line of U.S.$1.25 per day. That number goes up to 474 million if the line is set at U.S.$2 per day.2
Uneven and Unequal Change
At the heart of food insecurity are several problems. Due to the process of rapid modernization, China has lost about 8.3 million hectares of arable land, 6.5 percent of the country's total arable area, largely in the most fertile coastal regions, where urbanization and industrialization have flourished. Access to water—and its quality, use, and distribution—are all mounting problems that, over time, may become even more serious than issues related to land. Supply-side-related problems are not the only challenges facing Chinese agriculture. Since the 1990s, rising incomes, especially in cities, have led to significant increases in the consumption of nonstaple foods, such as meat, fish, fruits, eggs, and dairy products. Given that the number of higher-income earners is expected to increase rapidly, demand for nonstaples will also expand, increasing pressure on the national food supply. Production of nonstaple foods has been rising in response to increased demand, for example, between 1996 and 2007, meat production went up by 50 percent, egg production by 30 percent, and milk production by 200 percent.3 However, increased demand and the resulting increase in production have been accompanied by various problems, including environmental pollution and unsafe foods, for example, tainted milk, which caused the death of babies and children, a global outcry, as well as a huge setback to development of the domestic dairy industry.
Since it initiated reforms in 1978, China has been widely recognized for its major achievements in reducing extreme poverty. However, severe poverty remains high in absolute numbers. Small farmers in the remote upland areas of southwest and northwest China, with an average of less than 0.2 hectares of land, are among the poorest of the poor. They are also the most affected by food insecurity. Although they hold land-use rights, in most cases the land is of such low quality that it is not possible to achieve subsistence levels of production. Many poor farmers have to purchase additional food, but they have been hit hard by increased food prices since the reforms.
A major consequence of the reforms has been an overall increase in out-migration from rural to urban areas, especially from poorer areas. Men are the majority of the migrants, while fewer women are moving, resulting in the increasing feminization of agriculture in the last decade, most notably in the poor western and southwestern areas.4 More and more women are being left alone at home, and they constitute 70–80 percent of the agricultural labor force in most rural provinces.5 They are mainly middle-aged women with limited education. However, women's increasing role in rural life is seldom noted by the key decision makers, mostly living in towns and cities, who are responsible for rural development issues, including the areas of health, education, service provision, market regulation (prices and subsidies), and wages. Women's specific needs, interests, and expertise are also largely neglected in technology design, development, and diffusion processes, for example, in the development of new crop varieties and alternative agronomic practices. The result has been an agricultural policy that often fails to address the needs of farmers in some of the most deprived areas.
Neglected by Conventional Crop Research
Conventional crop research in China is well organized and has produced very good results, leading to a major decrease in food insecurity and poverty. But it has been carried out mainly under favorable growing conditions, following a development path of high-input and commercialized agriculture. The past 15 years have seen spectacular results in China's agricultural heartland from the use of improved crop varieties and agricultural inputs—such as inorganic fertilizers, machinery, and tools—that have been supported by lower agricultural taxes, input and output subsidies, price supports, and market and infrastructure development. However, less arable regions, including the mountainous areas of Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou in the southwest, have not been served well. This is partly because of the prevailing assumptions of plant breeders, in turn supported by decision makers in agricultural development circles, that farmers are less knowledgeable than breeders, that selection must be done under optimum conditions, that cultivars must be genetically uniform and widely adaptable over large geographic areas, and that landraces and open-pollinated varieties (such as those still found in the southwest) must be replaced by high-yielding varieties under all circumstances to ensure national food security.
Agricultural biodiversity, farmers' diverse livelihoods, and farmers' contributions to crop conservation and improvement have been largely ignored. Privatization of seed production has led to a focus on hybrids and other modern varieties, with almost total neglect of traditional varieties and underutilized crops. Unfortunately, most hybrid varieties cannot adapt to the conditions in remote mountainous areas, including to increasingly variable weather conditions (e.g., droughts, floods), as experienced in Guangxi and other southwestern provinces. They are also susceptible to diseases and pests. Farmers in these regions have not been able to adopt hybrids and continue to rely on local varieties, though the area under cultivation is decreasing in many communities.6
Genetic Erosion in China
Maize, one of China's most important grains, is currently experiencing genetic erosion. The genetic base for maize breeding has been dramatically reduced over the last few decades. Forty years ago, Chinese farmers grew at least 12,000 open-pollinated varieties on 11 million hectares. Today, maize is grown on more than 24 million hectares for both food and feed, but farmers in the main maize-growing areas have to rely on only about 200 hybrid varieties.10 Although the national maize germplasm collection contains about 16,000 varieties, the use of much of this material in breeding programs is limited. In 1995, only five hybrid varieties were grown on 22.6 percent of the total maize acreage, and more than 38 percent of the national maize crop by area is made up of five inbred lines. If disease breaks out, the impact would be catastrophic, similar to other cropping situations that have suffered from reliance on only a few varieties.11
But not only maize is affected by genetic erosion. In the last ten years, crop landraces in the whole country have decreased rapidly. For example, a recent survey in Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou in the southwest revealed that, although about 90 percent of respondent households were cultivating maize landraces in 1998, this proportion decreased to 73 percent in 2003 and 56 percent in 2008. Farmers are turning more and more to hybrids and buying seeds, increasing their dependence on high-input cropping systems (hybrids often do not do well without sufficient doses of chemical inputs; hybrids also require the purchase of new seeds year after year). This is mainly the result of spreading market forces backed by government policies and interventions, on the one hand, and the lack of government support for local practices, on the other hand, leaving less and less space and options for the development of farmers' own seeds systems. Recent research suggests that, although farmers appreciate the advantages of hybrids to some extent, such as the high yields under favorable conditions, they remain concerned about the risks.12
Creating Synergies
To address these multiple challenges affecting rural China, in 1999 a novel initiative was started by several groups of women farmers, a number of rural villages, two plant-breeding organizations, and the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), the country's leading public agricultural policy research organization. Research began in Guangxi Province, located in the southwest and a risk-prone area. In the mountains, which cover much of the province, farmers planted maize in minute pockets of soil on steep slopes and between rocks in flat fields. The topography makes irrigation water scarce, but rains can flood the land and wash away crops. There are no roads, and access to markets is limited. Maize is produced for consumption. It is a traditional staple crop in the area, where there is a diversity of maize landraces, including, for example, waxy maize. A second research area consisted of relatively better-off communities in the valleys and flat areas, where people tend to be a bit better educated and have livelihoods that are more integrated with the market economy. Maize used to be a traditional staple food, but it is now used more for pig feed. Pig farming is the main source of income for most villagers.
CCAP's senior researcher Yiching Song developed the initiative, which launched an ambitious agenda that included crop rotation and organic fertilizers. Led by Song, who obtained her doctorate in rural development from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the team used participatory research to create synergies between the worlds of farmers and breeders, searching for innovative ways of using the best of traditional and modern knowledge and practices. The main aim was to establish cooperative and complementary relations between the formal seed system and farmers' systems. Cooperation was necessary in order to empower farmers, mainly women farmers. At the heart of the efforts is an approach known as participatory plant breeding, in which professional breeders and farmer breeders join forces to improve crops, blending scientific and traditional knowledge.7
The work of the research team, including the farmers, built on local women farmers' maize-breeding experience, developed over many years. At the same time, the team sought the expertise of formally trained plant breeders. Crop improvements were made through a number of crossing techniques and variety selection processes, which involved detasseling, mass selection, and line selection by farmers with support from breeders. Breeders went on to use more complex methods in the fields of the Guangxi Maize Research Institute (GMRI) in Nanning. So far, these trials have led to higher-yielding varieties that are at the same time more resilient to biotic and abiotic stresses, such as pests, diseases, and drought. More than 80 varieties have been used in the trials. Based on ten years of experimentation, four farmer-preferred varieties have been selected and released in the research villages. They have also spread beyond these villages. In 2008, similar work started in the neighboring provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou.
To share the benefits of the new crop products, the research team encouraged farmers and plant breeders to establish a formal agreement concerning the exchange of breeding material and seed production methods to further enhance their collaborative relationship. This sort of collaboration is still very new and requires time and effort by all parties to entrench the practice. It represents novel policymaking and is being followed with interest by both the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Environmental Protection. It is a concrete example of giving meaning to international agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
The initiative is also exploring new efforts at marketing local crops. Two organic or green farming associations, established by local farmers but supported by the research team, are becoming more and more well-known in Hengxian County in southeast Guangxi. Various forms of green and certified organic agriculture in China have been developing rapidly. In many places, these forms of farming do build on historically developed farming systems that never relied heavily on industrial inputs; in other places, including in the more favorable regions, such as central and coastal China, the new forms have developed as a radical shift from Green Revolution practices. Government support, financial and technical, has been important in most cases, but there are also examples of mostly farmer-led change. Public research organizations played an important role in the start-up and development phases of supporting farmers technically and administratively, including with the establishment of internationally recognized certification schemes.8 The earliest examples of conversion to organic farming date to the beginning of the 1990s. By 2005, more than half a million hectares were dedicated to certified products, with over a thousand companies involved. Since then, the areas under production, the total production, as well as the number of crops produced have expanded all over China (including for tea and bamboo). In 2002, organic vegetables started to become available in some of the major supermarkets in large cities. Both domestic and foreign demand continue to rise.
The first organic products from Guangxi, rice and kohlrabi—which are being produced without the use of industrial inputs—are welcomed by many customers from Nanning, Liuzhou, and even as far away as Hong Kong. In the city of Nanning, a new organic-food restaurant purchases produce directly from the two organic associations, which offer only slightly higher prices than for conventional produce. This restaurant, the first of its kind in the province's capital, is quickly gaining popularity.
The two organic associations, based in the villages of Chentang and Sancha, were established in 2005, a year after the conversion to organic farming was initiated in a move away from industrialized forms of farming, which were becoming increasingly costly and risky. Motivated to take a different approach to farming, farmers began to reorganize their work through more cooperation, relying on local resources (such as organic fertilizers and natural pesticides) and a collective spirit of crop management and experimentation. Starting with only ten farmers, they were soon able to obtain technical guidance and some financial support from Partners for Community Development (PCD), a Hong Kong–based NGO operating in various provinces of south China, supporting poverty alleviation and grassroots development.
In 2006, PCD staff began working with team members from CCAP and GRMI to improve local crop varieties. They received technical training and also support to improve the organizational processes, from production to marketing. The organic associations organize regular communications among their members to improve farming skills and give them a deeper understanding of the advantages of organic farming. The members are divided into small groups to monitor each other's planting efforts and make sure that everyone avoids the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. As farmers gradually enlarge the area devoted to organic farming, the local supply of fertilizer can no longer meet their needs. Because homemade fertilizer is the best choice, as it allows for strict quality control, the associations have begun to purchase the raw materials—such as bran and bone meal—for their members, encouraging the farmers to experiment to determine the best proportions of materials and the most effective amount of organic fertilizer to use.9
The growth of the organic associations has not been without challenges. The leaders, especially the chairpersons, both of whom are men, have invested a lot of time and energy, and also their own money, in organizing activities and exploring the market for the benefit of the associations, without receiving any payment. Their voluntary efforts are not sustainable in the long run, as they must also earn enough money to support their families. The associations' income, which comes from annual member fees and a small percentage of the sales of organic products, is just enough to meet the associations' office expenses. Thus, how to reimburse the leaders for their time and effort is a problem. Another challenge is how to respond adequately to the growing interest in the associations. As more members join, the associations struggle with adequate and timely provision of training in the basic techniques and skills of organic farming. How to professionalize the associations is becoming an issue, although this challenge can be viewed in a positive light: it indicates that the associations are serving an important function.
The Road Ahead
A decade's experience illustrates the successes and challenges of linking community-based research with policy- and law-making processes by engaging decision makers in rural development policy at local, provincial, and national levels. While pushing forward rapid transformation of the Chinese economy, many of the country's policymakers, researchers, and rural development agents have neglected important aspects of rural development, such as the traditional knowledge base and local genetic resources. This situation has become worse since a market economy was introduced. As a result of large-scale privatization and commercialization, the formal seed system has become increasingly subject to profit-driven practices and fierce competition. Hybrid breeding and hybrid seed production are receiving more attention and effort than ever, from both government and the private sector. Concerns about conservation of biodiversity and improving rural livelihoods have mostly been sidelined. Farming in southwest China is experiencing a transformation, in certain areas resulting in crises. Agricultural income is generally declining and represents a decreasing percentage of rural household income. Many farmers are losing interest in farming. Both the feminization and aging of the agricultural workforce are evident and increasing; women and older people have become the key agricultural cultivators. Seeds and seed management and improvement are central to sustainable farming but have increasingly become a bottleneck.
In marginalized areas, such as in the mountains of Guangxi, farmers' seed-conservation methods continue to play a major role in meeting their various needs. These systems are evolving and facing challenges, such as genetic erosion, but they still maintain the biodiversity that is necessary to sustain agriculture. Current and future plant-breeding efforts—in the face of climate change and other impacts, such as natural disasters—will depend on these systems. A dynamic and viable seed-production system is crucial for maintaining maize (and food) production, continuing the process of crop improvement, and developing local adaptations to environmental changes. Such a system is also the basis for the conservation and potential use of biodiversity by future generations. Organized women farmers, in particular, have taken the initiative to become qualified seed producers and distributors. New organizational forms are emerging to support these efforts, and changes are already occurring in relevant policy domains. Lack of useful information about new technology and markets is one of the key constraints on agricultural production. Organized farmers have established new links with extension services to solve the problems they face in these arenas.
As Yiching Song, in a recent interview (December 2011), concludes,
Our work in Guangxi tells us that we need to work together with scientists from many disciplines, and with multiple stakeholders from multiple levels. Field-level action can bring about change by forging social ties with others interested in promoting fair and equitable rural innovation and livelihoods. It also shows that concrete action can bring about more profound innovation through better understanding of and dealing with the complexity of rural realities, step by step. It takes a long time, but it is possible.


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